Malak
#1,540 for girls in 2025, 137 births · #5,399 for boys in 2025, 17 births
Given to girls 93.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2011 · 210 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,894since 1983
Malak over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,540 | 137 | #5,399 | 17 |
| 2024 | #1,664 | 123 | #5,241 | 18 |
| 2023 | #1,780 | 114 | #6,220 | 14 |
| 2022 | #1,601 | 132 | #6,828 | 12 |
| 2021 | #1,816 | 111 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2020 | #1,494 | 143 | #5,451 | 16 |
| 2019 | #1,763 | 116 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #1,554 | 139 | #6,703 | 12 |
| 2017 | #1,263 | 187 | #4,594 | 21 |
| 2016 | #1,365 | 173 | #6,349 | 13 |
| 2015 | #1,307 | 182 | #6,676 | 12 |
| 2014 | #1,376 | 168 | #5,485 | 16 |
| 2013 | #1,378 | 169 | #7,026 | 11 |
| 2012 | #1,413 | 162 | #6,626 | 12 |
| 2011 | #1,164 | 210 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,206 | 200 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #1,272 | 191 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #1,531 | 151 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #1,655 | 134 | #8,915 | 8 |
| 2006 | #1,581 | 136 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,615 | 125 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #1,554 | 127 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #2,019 | 89 | #7,245 | 9 |
| 2002 | #2,414 | 66 | #8,456 | 7 |
| 2001 | #2,236 | 72 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #2,672 | 55 | #7,416 | 8 |
| 1999 | #3,374 | 37 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,497 | 34 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | #2,820 | 43 | — | |
| 1996 | #4,059 | 26 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #3,492 | 31 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #3,704 | 29 | — | |
| 1993 | #6,264 | 14 | — | |
| 1992 | #5,484 | 17 | — | |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 | — | |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 | — | |
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| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | — | |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | — | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | — | |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | — | |
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| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Malak! It came in at #10,275, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1983–1985, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Malak
- 124 spots since 2024 (#1,664 → #1,540)
- 46 spots since 2020 (#1,494 → #1,540)
- 233 spots since 2015 (#1,307 → #1,540)
- Debuted 1983
- Peaked 2011 at #1,164 (210 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,377 girls born in 2011 were named Malak (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 11,732 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 43.8% of all girls named Malak (1,706) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 27 | #9,545 (1986) | #10,424 |
| 1990s | 255 | #2,820 (1997) | #4,681 |
| 2000s | 1,146 | #1,272 (2009) | #1,855 |
| 2010s | 1,706 | #1,164 (2011) | #1,379 |
| 2020s | 760 | #1,494 (2020) | #1,649 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Malak in 2014
Top girls' names in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
girls
1,786,355 girls got a published name in 2014; 1 in 10,633 of them was named Malak, which outranked 92.8% of the 19,232 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,371Christiana169
- #1,371Milagros169
- #1,371Novalee169
- #1,376Malak168
- #1,376Brinlee168
- #1,376Iyanna168
- #1,376Janet168
- #1,382Ashton167
- #1,382Carissa167
- #1,382Isadora167
Tied with 5 names at #1,376; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 3,632Aranza#4,243 → #611
- ↑ 576Montserrat#1,148 → #572
- ↑ 573Monserrat#1,165 → #592
- ↑ 463Maisie#1,116 → #653
- ↑ 419Ariadne#1,220 → #801
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 120,054 of them was named Malak, which outranked 61.0% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,252Zeek17
- #5,252Zephan17
- #5,252Zubair17
- #5,485Malak16
- #5,485Aaban16
- #5,485Aasim16
- #5,485Abdifatah16
- #5,733Abdulla15
- #5,733Abdurahman15
- #5,733Abrar15
Tied with 247 names at #5,485; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.